11-letter words containing l, a, r, y, s
- prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
- prosaically — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
- pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
- pyrolysable — able to be pyrolysed
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- rallymaster — an organizer and director of an automobile rally.
- rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- ravishingly — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- recyclables — objects that are able to be processed and used again
- respectably — worthy of respect or esteem; estimable; worthy: a respectable citizen.
- resultantly — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- reusability — reuse
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
- royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
- rush family — the plant family Juncaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having narrow, grasslike leaves, small and greenish flowers, and capsular fruit with three compartments, comprising the true rushes.
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
- sartorially — of or relating to tailors or their trade: sartorial workmanship.
- satirically — of, pertaining to, containing, or characterized by satire: satirical novels.
- scatteredly — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
- school year — the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.
- sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
- scrawlingly — in a scrawling manner
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
- sea lamprey — a parasitic marine lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, that spawns in fresh water along both Atlantic coasts and in the Great Lakes, where it is responsible for losses of economically valuable fish.
- searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- self-slayer — one who kills oneself.
- sensorially — with respect to sensation; in a sensorial way
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- sierra lily — a lily, Lilium parvum, of the northwestern U.S., having erect, purple-spotted, orange-red flowers with a yellow base.
- silver gray — a light brownish-gray.
- silver-gray — gray with a silvery luster
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- sir stanley — Arthur Penrhyn [pen-rin] /ˈpɛn rɪn/ (Show IPA), (Dean Stanley) 1815–81, English clergyman and author.
- sky cavalry — air cavalry.
- sky marshal — an armed plainclothes federal marshal riding on an airliner to protect against skyjacking.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- slaveringly — in a slavering manner
- solar cycle — the variation of sunspots, prominences, flares, and other solar activity through an 11-year cycle.
- sorbability — the ability of something to absorb
- southwardly — toward the south
- sparklessly — in a sparkless manner
- sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
- spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror